NHC molecules and phosphine ligands have been shown to stabilize radicals of this element. Bonding in compounds characterized by this element can be calculated through the styx rule. An organic compound of this element is often drawn with its bridged bicyclic rings represented by a banana. The prefixes closo-, hypho-, nido-, and arachno- are used to name cluster compounds containing hydrogen and this element, per Wade’s rules. This element tends to form three-center, two-electron bonds, leading it to often be called “electron deficient.” Like beryllium and aluminum, this element can form three bonds with no lone pair, violating the octet rule. A hydride of this element is used as a reducing agent. For 10 points, name this element with atomic number 5. ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.71 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 90.50 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.67 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 65.10 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 88.69 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.63 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.09 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto B | 27 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Illinois A | 29 | 10 |
| Ahmed Azhari | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 29 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 30 | 10 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | George Mason A | 45 | -5 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Washington B | 45 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 45 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Truman State | 45 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | SIUE | 45 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 45 | 10 |
| Harish Lolla | Illinois C | Louisville A | 45 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 45 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Williams | 45 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 45 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Bruin A | 45 | 10 |
| Keith Delarosa | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 45 | -5 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | LSE B | 45 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Toronto C | 47 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Mason B | 47 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Iowa | 47 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 47 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Bristol B | 47 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Lancaster A | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | UIC | 48 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 48 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 48 | 10 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Manchester A | 48 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 49 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 50 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 52 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas B | 52 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Northwestern B | 54 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Queen's A | 59 | -5 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Michigan D | 63 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD B | 66 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Purdue B | 67 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh A | LSE A | 68 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 69 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 73 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Guelph A | 74 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC A | 78 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto I | 82 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 82 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Indiana B | 82 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 82 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto K | 84 | 10 |
| George Churchill | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 86 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 86 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Northwestern C | 88 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 90 | 10 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 90 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 92 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 92 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Warwick B | 92 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Tufts A | 95 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Harvard | 96 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 97 | 10 |
| Juliette Flatau | Imperial C | Durham B | 99 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Guelph B | 100 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Queen's B | 100 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Georgetown A | 102 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 102 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | MIT B | 110 | 10 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 111 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 118 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto H | 121 | 10 |
| Olivia Parisotto | Toronto G | Toronto F | 122 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 122 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 122 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 122 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 122 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 122 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 122 | 10 |
| Varun Ramanathan | Michigan D | Kentucky | 122 | 10 |
| Niki Ilia | BC B | Bowdoin B | 122 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 122 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 122 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 122 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | UAB A | 122 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Durham A | 122 | 10 |
| Laura Bullock | Sheffield B | City St George's A | 122 | 10 |